.... with Morse
With the background of rising energy costs, power shortages and space constraints across the UK, organisations need to uncover smarter ways to manage useage and therefore IT budgets.
Understanding the TCO of existing IT assets - that includes the purchase price, amount of electricity consumed to power and cool, support and maintenance - is a good starting point to find where improvements can be made in order to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of technology as well as budgets.
By adopting the Asset Retirement programme from Morse, we help you compile an asset register with these details - and in addition, identify if any potential residual value from the assets is to be gained by trading them in. With this clear overview of your estate, we can then advise about whether assets should be retired, replaced or kept – and for how much longer.
- To see an example of how savings can be made by refreshing legacy HP servers with HP BladeSystem, click on the next tab, "Comparing old with new".
- Read more about the tried and tested Morse Asset Retirement programme, part of our Technology Lifecycle Management (TLM) approach to IT, that helps to ensure you get the best combination of value and performance from your investments.
- Book a free asset survey to uncover which assets could be retired and how much you could save.
Here is an example that demonstrates the savings to be made immediately and in the longer term when replacing 80 x HP DL380 G3 with 5 x HP BladeSystems each with 16 ProLiant blade servers.
| |
Installed System
|
Replacement System
|
| |
80 x HP DL380 G3
|
5 x HP BLc7000 with
80 x HP ProLiant BL460c |
| CPU |
2 x 3GHz Single
core Xeon (each) |
1 x 3GHz Quad
core Xeon (per blade) |
| Power (max) (W) |
42,640 |
20,415 |
| BTU/hr |
145,440 |
69,615 " |
| EIA Rack units |
160 |
50 |
| Trade-in value # |
£20,000 |
NA |
| RRP Price * |
NA |
£243,675 |
| Support ** |
£181,440 |
£27,625 |
|
Cost of ownership
|
£40,800 |
£20,060 |
|
CO2
|
192 |
93.5 |
This scenario provides an immediate saving of over 50% for each of power usage, carbon emissions and cost of ownership:
- 52% less power usage
- 51% reduction in carbon emissions
- 50.8% decrease in cost of ownership
This clearly demonstrates that replacing old servers with newer, more efficient technology can have a significant impact on energy costs and usage.
Even though not related to issues of power consumption, and “green”, support costs are a big factor when it comes to running IT. It’s no secret that older machines cost more to support, so the savings to be gained year on year by refreshing technology need to be considered.
In this scenario, the savings amount to £153,815. The support for 80 blade servers in 5 BladeSystems cost just 16% of what it costs to support 80 individual DL380s. If you combine this saving with a potential trade-in value of £20,000 for the old servers and space savings of just under 70%, the financial reasons to retire old devices and implement up-to-date, more powerful (yet less power-hungry) machines, become very compelling.
Notes:
Replacement system: each server has 4GB memory, 2 x 146GB internal drives
" total when 100% utilised
# subject to HP approval
* RRP prices given, no manufacturer discount applied.
** 3 years 24 x 7 support
Cost of ownership: Figures based on a server being run in a server environment and is calculated on averages such as cost of electricity, server room requirement (cooling / UPS etc). Do not include real estate or manpower costs.
HP BladeSystems are about exploiting economies of scale when deploying servers in volume
The new HP BladeSystem delivers a best-run IT infrastructure out-of-the-box – unifying server, storage, network, power/cooling and management capabilities to create unlimited possibilities for IT and business. The HP BladeSystem consolidates power, cooling, connectivity, redundancy, and security into a modular, self-tuning system with intelligence built-in.
Thanks to their innovative design, by implementing an HP BladeSystem server solution, positive business impact can be obtained from as few as 8 servers. Hundreds of independent rack servers require a lot of space and repetitive parts. HP BladeSystems’ integrated backplane means fewer interconnecting cables and devices are required. And LAN and SAN connections can be consolidated within the enclosure.
On the subject of energy consumption, they incorporate intelligent features making it all easier to control.
HP Thermal Logic technology combines monitoring, reporting and adaptive management functionality of power and cooling resources. It enables IT and Facility Managers to quantify power consumption and cooling needs across the data centre. This technology is all about delivering the right amount of power at the right time.
HP Active Cool Fans can be throttled depending on the number of blades, thus using only the minimum required power. Compare that to rack servers, where fans are either on or off with no control and that’s where bladesystem makes the difference.
HP Insight Control streamlines the blade infrastructure management enabling the rapid deployment of infrastructure, operating systems and applications. It also provides real-time control over power and cooling, monitors performance, identifies vulnerabilities and alleviates performance bottlenecks.
Click on the following links to read more about the HP BladeSystem:
